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If i could, I would probably do the same as to what your considering, That area sits SW so it has sun on it all day, I have a lot of clay, And that area where i have the garden holds a lot of water so it would be impossible for ground plants, But i can control growth and pest much easier making soil amendments every year

Your wet season is coming up.

Not when a trace. Just snow in the air over here. 1.41" of rain for the event.

Yes it does.

It’s been all locked up in the pack for months too…so deeper soil has been drying out and is ready to quickly absorb what we have back in. Once everything starts greening up it’s going to get sucked up quickly

Will be up there at SR March non skiing 23 to 25th looks cold and snowy .

We're starting a bigger garden this spring up here, we have a good spot that gets plenty of sun, not sure if I'll use totes like you nor not yet.

I’d seen in the BTV NWS forecast discussion that Winter Weather Advisories were going up in association with the next system moving into the area, but there wasn’t any specific mention of alerts here in Northern Vermont. Now that I look at the BTV NWS alerts map though, I see that the area is surrounded by Winter Weather Advisories and Winter Storm Warnings, and some of the projected snow accumulations are substantial, so there’s certainly a lot going on. The Event Total Snow Accumulation map shows some areas of 6-8” shading here in the Northern Greens, and some of the mountain point forecasts are coming in with 12”+ of snow through Sunday. The BTV NWS forecast discussion does highlight the QPF only topping out around 0.4” with shadowing in many areas due to the track, but they also point out the locally higher amounts possible along the western slopes, and the accumulations map certainly highlights that. Some models show >0.5” of liquid along the spine, and we’ll see how things evolve with the next update ahead of the system. With the spring cycling and refreeze that the snowpack has seen over the past few days, it’s going to take a decent amount of liquid equivalent for resurfacing of the slopes, but every bit of liquid that comes with this system will increase the angle of terrain that comes into play and enhance the potential for decent turns.

D4 30% must be pretty damn rare for this area, especially in mid march, right?

8”ish

That's where you tell them "So if you're 'pros,' who's paying you so I can sue them into oblivion for hiring your dumb a**?" Fortunately, while I've seen a few "questionable" driving decisions but nothing egregious like that around storms...so far. Actually had a chase partner for the first time in a while on Tuesday. It was pretty low-key around the Galesburg/Kewanee/Princeton cell, probably because most people were either on the Kankakee storm or frantically trying to get back to it (which no doubt resulted in more bad driving). That sounded like a highly stressful intercept for just about everyone involved, and it seems it was only photogenic for a short time before rain wrapping and/or darkness set in, so I'm not too broken up about missing that.

That'll happen everywhere in the continent except for this specific region right here

This sucks after earlier in the week but its early march still.

My father-in-law is with us this week, he turned 84 in Feburary. You'll make it.

Mine are very happy, Going to be another 10 weeks or so before they get outdoors.

6.6" imby with a general 6-12" dump across NE MN into N WI. Replaced what melted in recent days. And as for blizzard conditions, not really. Maybe some other locales, but not here in TH.

It’s all hypothetical speculation at this point. Long, long way to go before we can say with any confidence if this is going to be a super El Niño event or not. Then, if (IF) it does in fact become a super event….is it east-based (82-83, 97-98)? Or basin-wide (15-16)? Paul Roundy is extremely confident that this El Niño at least STARTS as an east-based event regardless of strength, where it goes from there is anyone’s guess right now…..

I still like where I sit with the 6z euro. It is a tough look for Iowa but keeps NE IL, NW IN and SW MI in the game for a few inches of wind driven snow. I’ll be the lone positive vibe. Going to be a fun system. Slight risk of severe weather on Sunday followed by potentially near-blizzard conditions on Monday. Let’s go!

Let's go for it and jump directly to May!

What we have for water content in this pack won't even make a dent in the drought.

March 13 2006: A March snowstorm dumps 9.9 inches at the Twin Cities. 1851: Before the spring green-up, dry grassy areas are a fire risk. On this date prairie fires blazed in Minnesota. For Friday, March 13, 2026 1907 - A storm produced a record 5.22 inches of rain in 24 hours at Cincinnati, OH. (12th-13th) (The Weather Channel) 1951 - The state of Iowa experienced a record snowstorm. The storm buried Iowa City under 27 inches of snow. (David Ludlum) 1977 - Baltimore, MD, received an inch of rain in eight minutes. (Sandra and TI Richard Sanders - 1987) 1987 - A winter storm produced heavy snow in the Sierra Nevada Range of California, and the Lake Tahoe area of Nevada. Mount Rose NV received 18 inches of new snow. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1988 - Unseasonably cold weather prevailed from the Plateau Region to the Appalachians. Chadron NE, recently buried 33 inches of snow, was the cold spot in the nation with a low of 19 degrees below zero. (The National Weather Summary) 1989 - Residents of the southern U.S. viewed a once in a life-time display of the Northern Lights. Unseasonably warm weather continued in the southwestern U.S. The record high of 88 degrees at Tucson AZ was their seventh in a row. In southwest Texas, the temperature at Sanderson soared from 46 degrees at 8 AM to 90 degrees at 11 AM. (The National Weather Summary) 1990 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather from northwest Texas to Wisconsin, Iowa and Nebraska during the day, and into the night. Severe thunderstorms spawned 59 tornadoes, including twenty-six strong or violent tornadoes, and there were about two hundred reports of large hail or damaging winds. There were forty-eight tornadoes in Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa, and some of the tornadoes in those three states were the strongest of record for so early in the season, and for so far northwest in the United States. The most powerful tornado of the day was one which tore through the central Kansas community of Hesston. The tornado killed two persons, injured sixty others, and caused 22 million dollars along its 67-mile path. The tornado had a life span of two hours. Another tornado tracked 124 miles across southeastern Nebraska injuring eight persons and causing more than five million dollars damage

nothing left here except the larger parking lot piles and even those will slowly shrink over the next week with sun and temps well above freezing during the day (and 2 inches of rain with temps 55+ Monday)

Low of 27. Classic March days ahead.

T Good morning Rob, Gravity. My delusional old man snow stick ( with my daughter’s pug Frank in the background ) looks forlornly at, perhaps, the last flakes of the cold season. Maybe next year, my friend, ……… if we both make it. Stay well, as always …. IMG_1170.mov

Oddly, I just read the DVN discussion and it talks about a winter storm watch for heavy deformation zone snow, with zero mention of the bone-dry Euro. Other non-GFS models are also trending toward the Euro, so I think DVN will have to start walking back the snow talk.